New Browsing Experience: “Infinite Scroll”

Twitch is now more than ever a multi-screen experience. The landscape on which the community interacts with Twitch now spans Web, mobile (iOS and Android), and console (Xbox 360, Xbox One and PS4). And that list is sure to grow.

The design team has a particularly challenging job: ensuring that the Twitch experience is as seamless as possible across all those platforms, both current and future.

Today, we launched a simple but profound feature: “Infinite Scroll.” This allows the user to browse Twitch directory pages (by game, channel, etc.) without that pesky “Load More” button. Now it’s a seamless scrolling mechanism that gives you immediate access to a deeper browsing experience that is much more like iOS or Android tablets.

And remember, you can still sort Twitch directories by either “Top” or “Random.” We encourage everyone to browse the directories randomly every now and again. It helps discover new and lesser-known broadcasters. Hopefully this helps in that regard too.

As always, let us know what you think at feedback@twitch.tv. We’re listening.

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Fyllekatt

Thank you, that’s amazing!

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

You’re quite welcome.

http://ryan.snook.us/ Snook

Nice, thank you Would love to see game following so we can see a composite of active channels for games we are interested in.

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

It’s definitely something we’re thinking about!

Saggin

Still wish you focused more on apps, iPhone app got a lot of things right like seeing offline people, emote list, info section etc. but sadly doesnt have a title and cant watch chat in fullscreen.
The Android app is terrible compared to it and I would rather have Twitch dev focus on mobile apps and have many small improvements instead of one big once in a while.

David McLeod

They are different internal teams. We haven’t forgotten Android

Saggin

Not just about the Android app. When you updated the iPhone app you went 3 steps forward and 1 backwards.
I’m also kind of curious to how you’re gonna implement the group chat into the Twitch app.

Saggin

Just remember many small updates are better than 1 giant one once ina while, easier to fix(if anything goes wrong) and it keeps the app fresh

http://www.bitmapd.com/ Bitmap’d Gamer Tees

Nice update!
Also, will you guys ever implement a feature that would allow streamers the ability to go live without notifying our followers or viewers? This is for things like testing out graphics, stream quality, etc.

Curryking32000

How about the ability to sort and search by platform?

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

You actually can browse channels by All, Xbox One or PS4. We’re thinking about other ways to increase discoverability by platform as well.

Philidor

Now if only YouTube did the same with their comment section…

Sean

Nice update, but along with this update brought a host of profile errors. Thumbnails not loading properly, followers list doesn’t load, highlights and ‘past broadcasts’ being reversed weirdly. Hope you can get it all smoothed out.

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

Thanks Sean. Boxart (thumbnails) is a harder challenge than you might imagine. We’re working on it! Follower lists appear to be working properly. If you do in fact have a bug, please report it here: http://www.twitch.tv/bug_reports/new. Unclear what you mean by “reversed weirdly.”

Sean

What I mean is like when I click ‘followers’ it’s blank (a loading circle appears but doesn’t load anything), then if I click ‘following’ afterwards it will display my followers on top of who I’m following. Like, it queues up the previous selection, almost. It’s weird.

Asked a few to try see if ‘followers’ works for them too and they said it doesn’t, it just shows a ‘loading icon’ and then the box below is blank.

Same thing can be done for Highlights and Past Broadcasts. Clicking Past Broadcasts then Highlights will result in your highlights not loading instead it will show your past broadcasts.

David McLeod

Seems like this was or may have been a really weird cacheing issue. We are monitoring it to see if it is still affecting users (and investigating in general)

Sean

Followers seems to be working for me now. But clicking between the sections still results in some pretty weird behaviour from the site. Still, it’s good to see it’s being monitored.

xfullmetal17

Any chance the Android app will get push notifications? I’m okay with email, since it has a link to the channel (which then opens in the Twitch app) all these emails say “get these notifications on the go by downloading our app!” which to me translates as notifications from the Twitch app.

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

Definitely in the roadmap. The team is working overtime on Android.

http://www.gamingowl.com/ Luka Anicic

I remember sending this in an email earlier this year. I can only feel like I may have had something to do with this. :3

http://www.twitch.tv/ TwitchMatt

Thanks Luke. When we say, “We’re listening,” we’re not kidding!

Crevox

Please reduce stream delay. Streaming was so much better before when the delay was lower.

Hiding

Am I the only one that doesn’t like this? Auto loading never works. Same as the last time you guys did this. I refresh the page many times and most of the time it stops at a certain amount of pages. Any chance of giving people the option of having the load more button?

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